The purpose of this study is to quantify
the welfare and foreign exchange costs that arise in
developing countries as a result of the protectionist
policies pursued...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP769Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Zietz, Joachim ;
Valdes, Alberto
This paper reviews recent patterns in
international financial flows to both developed and
developing countries. It notes that, while borrowings by
developed countries...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP784Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Saini, Krishnan G
The principal purpose of the monograph
is to use general equilibrium methodology to explain the
logical foundations of shadow prices and the techniques for
deriving...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP792Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Tower, Edward ;
Pursell, Garry
The evolution of the international
financial system is determined to a large extent by the
development of the financial system in the dominant country
or countries....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP788Date: January 31, 1986Author:
Rybczynski, T.M
This study seeks to answer questions
regarding stalls in the decline of fertility in three
countries and the reasons for such stalls. In the three
countries studied,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP693Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Gendell, Murray
This paper uses the financial statements
of industrial firms to develop an integrated firm's eye
view of the changes in the Uruguayan economy during 1973-81.
In the...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP696Date: December 31, 1985Author:
de Melo, Jaime ;
Pascale, Ricardo ;
Tybout, James
This paper reviews the existing data,
mainly Chinese publications, on childhood diseases in order
to assess the health status & morbidity patterns of
Chinese children....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP767Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Young, Mary E ;
Prost, Andre
This paper aims: (i) to answer a number
of questions about the Grain Commission deficit in Cyprus;
(ii) to extend a general methodology to include a livestock
sector....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP782Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Braverman, A. ;
Hammer, J. ;
Jorgensen, E.
This case study focuses on the serious
problems faced by a large Chinese nonferrous metals smelter
and how the plant responded to them. The most important
problems were...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP766Date: December 31, 1985Author:
Byrd, William
This paper is the final product of a
cooperative research project conducted by staff of the
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing and the
Development Research...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP755Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Xuezeng, Li ;
Shengming, Yang ;
Juhuang, He
This paper develops estimates of Soviet
gross national product (GNP) in rubles for the 1970s and in
dollars for selected years in the 1970s. The paper also
considers...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP777Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Campbell, Robert
The paper examines some of the major
conceptual problems involved in converting the national
product of centrally planned economies (CPEs) into U.S.
dollar equivalents....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP779Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Wolf, Thomas
The purpose of the paper is to explain
the policy goals underlying the multiple exchange rate
regime of centrally planned economies (CPEs), to clarify the
origin and...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP778Date: November 30, 1985Author:
van Brabant, Jozef M
The paper presents results from a study
designed to estimate the effect on agricultural productivity
of the Training and Visit Extension System in the Karnal and
Kairana...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP756Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Feder, Gershon ;
Lau, Lawrence ;
Slade, Roger
This paper assesses alternative foreign
borrowing strategies for Thailand using a medium-term
dynamic optimization model. The model has five sectors:
rubber, other agriculture,...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP781Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Kharas, Homi ;
Hisanobu Shishido
The authors who prepared this report
carried out interviews with managers in manufacturing and
agricultural exporting firms that elicited reactions about
the favorable...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP764Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Corbo, Vittorio ;
de Melo, Jaime [editors]
This paper reviews Bulgaria's
national accounts data, and estimates the country's
gross domestic product (GDP) in national currency for 1970
and 1980 and the average...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP771Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Park,Jong-Goo ;
Shamsher, Singh
The paper considers the theoretical and
practical problems connected with the estimation Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) for the centrally planned economy of
Czechoslovakia....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP772Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Havlik, Peter ;
Levcik, Friedrich
This paper reviews the official
estimates of Romania's net material product (NMP) and
gross domestic product (GDP) and the underlying methods. It
also reviews the data...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP774Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Jackson, Marvin
This paper presents U.S. dollar
estimates of the per capita product of the German Democratic
Republic for 1975 and 1980. The system of national accounts
and valuation...
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP773Date: November 30, 1985Author:
Collier, Irwin L
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